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November 2, 2026

Natural Gas: El Niño vs. the Northeast Forward Curve… Someone Is (Very) Wrong

By Timm Schneider

Key Take: We believe the Northeast forward curve already prices another cold winter, and Q1-27 consensus sits even higher on Henry Hub. This is not a hot take on the weather. It is a leverage…

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November 1, 2026

BP (N/R) Categorically Denies Board Level Discussions Around a Break-Up – Naturally We Ran Several Scenarios…

By Timm Schneider

…ahead of the company’s scheduled business update call on December 15th 2026. Key Take: We like integration. But we also believe in portfolio optimization. In our opinion, among other things, BP’s fuels and convenience business…

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November 1, 2026

Oil Down Marginally as of Noon ET… Your Weekend News + Weekly News Summary

By Timm Schneider

Oil is down marginally on weekend marks from the decentralized exchanges (as of noon Sunday – full caveat this can vary very quickly before the electronic open today at 18:00 ET…), with Brent down ~0.7%…

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October 31, 2026

Cheniere (LNG; N/R): What Consensus Numbers (Already) Imply… Our (Most) Detailed LNG/CQP Analysis Yet (40-Slide Deck + Model Available)

By Timm Schneider

Happy Halloween! It is the weekend, so we went with the long deck: ~40 slides of interesting (at least in our view…) weekend reading. And none of the calories of the candy bowl! Key Take:…

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October 30, 2026

Halftime Mark: Love/ Hate 22 (LHP22) Grinds Out ~40Bps in Volatile Week…

By Timm Schneider

…one more week before we close this one. Full position marks as of 16:00 ET 10-30-2026 within as well as some comments on what happened this week. LHP22 is at the halfway mark and roughly…

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October 29, 2026

PSX (N/R): The Better Way to Own Refining If (When?!) Cracks Roll. Four-Quarter Scorecard

By Timm Schneider

PSX just put up a monster quarter (par for the course for most of the refiners that have reported so far). In our view, the more interesting question now is what the stock does when…

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October 27, 2026

Long-Haul Relationship: What EQT (N/R) and RRC (N/R) Get Out of Moving In Together (Nerd Alert)

By Timm Schneider

What’s Inside? Leading with the conclusion: This report took a long time, and what it shows almost doesn’t matter. But maybe herein lies the value? Let us explain: We pulled ~220 transport contracts (~205 of…

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October 26, 2026

Initiating Love/ Hate Portfolio 22 (LHP), aka the ‘Frankenbook’

By Timm Schneider

Why the ‘Frankenbook?’ It was stiched together from parts of the last book (LHP21). See within for flips and presses. In any case… It’s that time again. We are rolling out our latest sentiment/ quant…

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October 26, 2026

EQT/RRC (both N/R): Out of Range? Where the Numbers Tie and Where They Don’t (Final Deal Analysis + Deck)

By Timm Schneider

Just another ‘Merger-Monday’… There is nothing we love more than a Monday-morning merger (maybe Sunday night, but then that messes up the weekend), and EQT (N/R) buying Range Resources (RRC; N/R) is about as big…

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October 26, 2026

Nat Gas En Masse: Initial Thoughts on the EQT – RRC Combo

By Timm Schneider

In our view, EQT just agreed to buy the last scaled, deep-inventory Marcellus neighbor it has, and the strategy is hard to argue with: It gets ~2.6 Bcfe/d of adjacent Southwest PA production (2027E consensus),…

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October 25, 2026

Weekly News/ Weekend News/ Weekend Commodity Marks…

By Timm Schneider

Oil up on weekend marks from the decentralized exchanges, with Brent up ~1.8% and WTI up ~3.5% versus Friday’s electronic close (these are perpetual contracts so they aren’t apples-to-apples versus the front month you see…

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October 25, 2026

Natural Gas: El Niño Cheapened the Molecule, Not the Integrated Systems That Bring It to Market (Nat Gas ‘Deep-ish’ Dive)

By Timm Schneider

Our KMI note earlier this week went down a few rabbit holes (– KMI (N/R): Our Proprietary Four-Quarter Score Card Is, In Fact, Pretty Solid… (~30 Slides). Truthfully, it added very little to KMI, a…

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October 24, 2026

Usually Right, Occasionally Spectacularly Wrong…

By Timm Schneider

…No, that is not the title of our future autobiography (could have fooled me though), but rather a key takeaway from our extremely detailed and massively (self-proclaimed) nerdy data analysis of our SOL (shares-on-loan) utilization…

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October 23, 2026

Closing LHP21: ‘Ach, wie gut, dass niemand weiß, dass ich Rumpelstilzchen heiß!…’ Love/ Hate YTD Now +50%

By Timm Schneider

source: The Internet; Rumpelstiltskin (1987) For anyone who missed the meme: In the 1987 retelling of Rumpelstiltskin – pictured above (a German fairy tale classic by the Brothers Grimm), a miller’s daughter is locked in…

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October 22, 2026

KMI (N/R): Our Proprietary Four-Quarter Score Card Is, In Fact, Pretty Solid… (~30 Slides)

By Timm Schneider

Once again, this is not your typical earnings note. We went back through the last four KMI calls (plus two September conferences) and graded every guide, beat and backlog promise. The result is our ~30-slide…

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